@anatosaurus.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2026-07-23 15:33 UTC
"Electability" arguments rest on Pollingism assumptions: that you need big dollar donors to do constant expensive broadcast comms, that voters you need are the ones selecting their "hot dog" vendor on ideological beach. And, yes - that is so deeply baked it HAS impacted normie voters.
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@anatosaurus.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2026-07-23 15:36
But, fundamentally, Trump was by every rational metric "unelectable." And yet...The question is whether there's enough runway (real Q) for true progressives running in battlegrounds to get their choirs to constantly preach & convert conflicted, most of whom need to come off couch.